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Marco Maljaars netherlands
title
Dutch Polder
I wanted to express the emptyness and typical character of this polder. Especially its trees in combination with the dike and land.
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entry description
This series is about one of the many Polders of the Netherlands. The polder in the series is known as the Beemster. Since 1999 the Polder is on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list. The Beemster is also a municipality in the Dutch province of Noord-Holland. The municipality has 9702 inhabitants and has an area of 72 km² (of which 2.8 km² of water). Typically for the Beemster are its trees on the ring dikes as can been seen on the images.I wanted to express the emptyness and typical character of this polder. Especially its trees in combination with the dike and land.
about the photographer
Marco Maljaars lives in the small place Velsen Noord, The Netherlands and born in 1975. He is a self-taught photographer. Since his teenage years he was addicted to photography and experimented with long exposure times with an analogue camera. Today he works with a digital camera. His main interests are seascapes and landscapes with a minimalistic approach and long exposure.www.instagram.com/marco_maljaars
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